Word: dollarized
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...menu is what our menu is. We’ll be running the same menu we do in our Cambridge locations and Newton,” Griffin said. “We’re not going to compromise quality to get a three- or four-dollar burger on the table...
...gardeners dig in for a new season of planting, the billion-dollar horticulture industry is finding fresh ways to keep green things healthy and hobbyists happy. From pruning shears to watering cans, the latest buzz is about ergonomics and comfort. Here are a few of the coolest green-thumb gadgets...
...rhetoric is being taken more seriously from the barrios of Caracas to the hallways of Washington. Chvez controls the hemisphere's largest oil reserves and is the U.S.'s fourth largest foreign supplier. As oil prices hit $60 per bbl. this summer, his government reaped a multibillion-dollar windfall. Chvez has used that, and his rising prestige in the region, to lead a political shift in Latin America that is buzzing like a Che Guevara souvenir convention. With the Bush Administration tied up in the global war on terrorism, Chvez and his allies have mounted an assault...
Canada’s current foreign aid contribution is approximately $3 billion, 0.26 percent of the country’s trillion-dollar GDP. Reaching 0.7 percent would require Canada’s contribution to more than double, a political near-impossibility given the higher-than-usual level of spending included in the government’s last budget, passed...
...China, with its surging trade surplus and huge holdings of dollar reserves, CNOOC's action is called the "go out" strategy: for the past two years, the Beijing government has been urging Chinese firms to expand their presence in overseas markets. Some have begun to respond. Late last year computer giant Lenovo bought the high-profile but money-losing personal-computer business from IBM for $1.75 billion. Prior to that, TCL, a consumer-electronics maker, bought the RCA TV business from French giant Thomson. And all the while, Chinese energy companies have been making deals with governments and private companies...